The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-09-15
CORRESPONDENCE,

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept, 8. 1887.
EDITOR HERALD:
The local attraction of the National Capt.
al is the Worlds Medical Congress. Be
tween four and five thousand physicians
are here, gathered from the four quarters of
civilization. Taken as a whole, it is rare
that one witnesses more INTELLIGENT or
finer looking body of men. The program is
very elaborate Tor the entire week. and ad-
mirably arranged for the pleasure and So
cial enjoyment or The visitors as we'll as in
the advancement of the special science that
calls together SO many distinguished men,
The sudden transform alton of the capital
from politics to medicine, has its amusing
side, and many very ludicrous incidents are
noted. 1t is customary here TO give nearly
every one military or judicial title. and in
ordinary times it is General Colonel. Major.
or Judge, out such an influx ofM. DIS this
week has changed entirely the social salu
tations, and it is now all Doctor" The
news boys and boot blacks, who are keen
and sharp witted, and always have an eve
open for opportunity, seize the occasion to
apply the prevailing title promiscuousIy.
which often results In great merriment and
frequent extra nickle. The real doctors
take in the situation and enjoy the Joke
with all others.
You krow there is vacancy on the
supreme court bench caused by the death of
Justice Woods, several months ago and it
has never been filled. These judicial posi-
lions are the best gifts under Government
They are removed from the wIangle and
strife of politics, last for life, and pay the
nice little sum Oslo 600 year with very
generous list of perauistes Why the Presl
dent has not filled the vacancy before is not
because of the lack of applicants, out be-
cause there has been such fearful clamor.
especially from the southern states, for the
desirable prize. 1t is now rumored with a
good degree of authenticity, that the Presi-
dent has decided to appoint Secretary Lamar
TO the Bench and then fill the vacancy in
the interior department by the appoipt-
ment Of Ex-Governor Patterson, of Penn
sylvania. Lamar Is q man or very dis
tinguished ability, and his MANAGEMENT of
the interior department has been one of the
greatest redeeming features of this admins
tration and his appointment to the supreme
court will doubtless be as acceptable as any
that Mr.. Cleveland would be likely to mi AXE
That there is an out-and-out rupture be-
wunps, is no longer q debatable question.
and il is well understood here that the
democratic leaders are rejoicing over the
fact That the mugwumps have proved a
serious incubus is no doubt true, and that
they elected Mr.. Cleveland is equally true.
and that they ought TO have known that
such an unnatural alliance would prove of
short duration is the synonym of truth it,
SELF The mugwumps as a political factor
have 10 further existence, the most en-.
phatically "play ed-out' skeleton of an or.
ganization that ever had political recogni-
ton. FIR ON now on they will cut no figure
in the democrtic party manipulations.
they are out and the door is closed against
them. The democratic leaders have beck.
oned over from the Prohibition camp a new
flirt, and the love making now going on is
extremely ridiculous. Think of modest
maiden Temperance cooling with modern
democracy. The wire pullers here are ac.
tually jubilant over the prospect of a SEEM
ingly serious courtship, but which in the
end will prove. as with the mugwump
trayal and desertion. :